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What are the big things you and DH won't eat?
Signing up for a CSA share has been very helpful in pushing me to cook and eat a wider variety of healthy stuff. For instance, I have never liked kale very much and had never actually cooked it before. But when you get several bunches every week and have to figure out what to do with it, you get lots of opportunities to experiment. I have a couple of kale recipes now that are really good. So, just like that, I added a superfood to the repertoire. Same story with beets, turnips and eggplant.
we specifically did not sign up for a CSA this year, even though we have done one for 5 years, because no matter how hard we tried, we never found recipes for foods we did not like. Kale that we received..became one of my friend's bunnies' dinner. The one I did lasat year I was able to request substitutes...so no kale...got green beans (a lot of green beans...thankfully I like those) and NO Beets.
Oh, I hear that. There are a lot of bad kale recipes out there. I think of kale as a vegetable that needs to be prepared very carefully before it's even faintly edible, let alone delicious. Unlike green beans, for instance, which you can pretty much cook any old which-way. Which kale recipes did you try? My latest success was this one, which technically calls for chard, but I subbed in kale (and sautéed it a little longer because kale has more substance than chard) and it was delicious. I mean so delicious that I ate way, way too much and pooped green for a while. Okay, maybe that was TMI, but it was pretty damned good. Oh, and one other thing about kale. Some people might like the stemmy parts of the kale leaf, but I think they are bitter and fiberous so I always strip out the stem and use only the leafy parts. Try that, it only takes a minute. Oh, and one other thing, just because you have tried a few of recipes that haven't worked out, maybe that just means you haven't yet found the right recipes. Finding new things that you like is a process of trial and error. You have to play to win.
I cannot remember the kale recipes off the top fo my head, it has been 2 years now. I know one had bacon. I do not like kale chips. K does not seem to mind kale...at least the last time she had it...but that was about a year ago, so who knows if she would eat it now.
I would probably like the kale/bacon combination, but the other person I often cook for doesn't eat pork, so that would only work when I'm eating solo. It's interesting that your K seems to have the most adventurous palate in the family. Maybe you guys should just cook things she seems to like whether you think you like them or not and try to learn from her. From the mouths of babes and all that.
You have an EarthFare up by you, rk? They're local to Asheville. I didn't realize they had opened locations that far away.
You do not like Chinese or Thai?? DOES. NOT. COMPUTE. Any butternut squash recipe can use pumpkin instead. You can also buy small pumpkins and then serve the meal INSIDE the pumpkin.
I love thai food. Yum.
Me too. And Japanese, and Vietnamese, and northern Chinese. Korean, not so much. Although, come to think of it, I've probably only had faux Korean food and might actually like the authentic stuff.